Never played any of the Tales Games yet myself, but i do enjoy a good RPG. Can anyone give a brief overview of what the gameplay is usually like in these games, or is there another RPG game it could be compared to which is similar

11th Jul 2013

Tales games are fast paced real time combat JRPG's. They use Anime style visuals. The stories tend to be humorous. The game should be quite long and have optional side-quests and probably a new game + option allowing the retention of certain items etc for a second playthrough.

11th Jul 2013

Surely this isn't th eday one edition with the soundtrack/artbook. talesofgame.com/uk.…tml Tesco isn't listed on there, not sure if that means they won't get the day one edition or not...

Still, definitely cancelled my shopto one (how the hell are they charging £46.85 for it?!). I'll try this (My brother gets a 10% discount!). As in the OP, there's a picture of day one so worst case, when it arrives I just send it back and hope another store still has the day one edition in stock (I want the soundtrack!)

11th Jul 2013

ido_kayat

Never played any of the Tales Games yet myself, but i do enjoy a good … Never played any of the Tales Games yet myself, but i do enjoy a good RPG. Can anyone give a brief overview of what the gameplay is usually like in these games, or is there another RPG game it could be compared to which is similar

HISPLINY has described it perfectly however in terms of similar games I would put it on similar levels to Star Ocean in terms of Battle Mechanics - if you have ever played any of those.

Really fun battles and good games.

Tales of Symphonia and Tales of Graces F are my favourites so far.

11th Jul 2013

Ordered the Special Edition don't know if I should go for this

11th Jul 2013

ibzzzz

Ordered the Special Edition don't know if I should go for this

Is that the one with the female figurine?

11th Jul 2013

Is it worth buying this at launch? I remember pre-ordering graces F and paying almost full price, only to kick myself later as the price started falling soon after. What made it worse is that I didn't even enjoy the game. The worst of the series imo, Vesperia was miles better.

11th Jul 2013

AST3R

Is it worth buying this at launch? I remember pre-ordering graces F and … Is it worth buying this at launch? I remember pre-ordering graces F and paying almost full price, only to kick myself later as the price started falling soon after. What made it worse is that I didn't even enjoy the game. The worst of the series imo, Vesperia was miles better.

Hehe, I feel the complete opposite. I have now bought Vesperia and finding it twice as hard to get into. I've actually stopped playing it for a while and don't find myself wanting to go back to it like I did with Graces F.

I will go back and play but for me the magic was in Graces F but I don't get the same feelings in Vesperia. I think it's an amazing series though, it's like Final Fantasy in a sense that there are so many games in the series yet everyone loves each one for different reasons and more than what someone else would.

11th Jul 2013

AST3R

Is that the one with the female figurine?

Yup sure is! £80 delivered, only 10,000 copies and its sold out everywhere else in the world on the day the pre order was released lol, I think UK still has stock

Edited by: "ibzzzz" 11th Jul 2013

Original Poster11th Jul 2013

Asked them earlier on twitter about day one edition: 'On pre-order and release of the game, every copy of Tales of Xillia will be the Day 1 Edition in the UK.' so it is day one!

Never played any of the Tales Games yet myself, but i do enjoy a good … Never played any of the Tales Games yet myself, but i do enjoy a good RPG. Can anyone give a brief overview of what the gameplay is usually like in these games, or is there another RPG game it could be compared to which is similar

They have an action based combat system rather than something turn based or (purely) command based.

The Tales of... games tend to have fairly traditional fantasy storylines, relying on the character interactions to keep things entertaining (as you walk around, you get prompts to have conversations with party members).

11th Jul 2013

I still the think best one is Tales of Phantasia.

Too much cutscene junk in the later ones.

(Tales of Symphonia was not too bad).

12th Jul 2013

unrandomsam

I still the think best one is Tales of Phantasia.Too much cutscene junk … I still the think best one is Tales of Phantasia.Too much cutscene junk in the later ones.(Tales of Symphonia was not too bad).

Symphonia was my first tales, followed by Phantasia. Definitely my 2 favourites but I think Symphonia tips it.

Banned
12th Jul 2013

Currently got it for this price from Flubit.

Flubit will get it to me for release, Tesco won't, hopefully price will drop some more so I can reflubit it. Shame Flubit does not accept codes to compare against.

Edited by: "Reser" 12th Jul 2013

12th Jul 2013

Reser

Currently got it for this price from Flubit. Flubit will get it to me for … Currently got it for this price from Flubit. Flubit will get it to me for release, Tesco won't, hopefully price will drop some more so I can reflubit it. Shame Flubit does not accept codes to compare against.

Which website did you buy from through flubit?

Banned
12th Jul 2013

AST3R

Which website did you buy from through flubit?

Used Amazon.

23rd Jul 2013

The code doesn't work anymore!

1st Aug 2013

Expire code don't work

Original Poster9th Aug 2013

Success! actually delivered on release day.

11th Aug 2013

Same, I managed to get hold of a day release and a Collectors edition Happy days